Making of the Victorian Novelist Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series

This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign could be esteemed among the greatest of artists. Between these extremes stretches a century of ideological contention between alternative representations of authorship. Deane brings new attention in his account to the trends in publishing and the expanding market surrounding Victorian literature, such as the new modes of production, arguments over copyright legislation, and revisions of the criteria of periodical criticism. Combining literary sociology and close readings, The Making of the Victorian Novelist offers an innovative history of the material pressures and rhetorical struggles that produced - and ultimately shattered - the Victorians' understanding of their great novelists.

Chapter 1 Dueling Authorships in the Romantic Period; Chapter 2 Making Friends; Chapter 3 Sympathy's Last Gasp; Chapter 4 The Death of the Victorian Author; Chapter 5 Veiled Women in the Marketplace of Culture; concl Conclusion;

Bradley Deane

This original history of art opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids. Written by an acclaimed author, the book includes Western and non-Western artworks and diagrams of how artworks might connect through a single individual